Life
1901-?; b. Dublin, son of trade union leader; ed. Synge St., Irish Volunteers
1918-23; IRA Dublin Brigade; interned; released after 12-day hunger strike;
worked 40 years as Dublin Corporation maintenance foreman; four television
plays; works incl. The Gun; The Man They Could not Buy;
The Blonde and the Beast; Electric Moments. IF2 DIW
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Notes
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels,
Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists
Benson’s Flying Column (1936, 1945), a pop. novel of Black
and Tan period; ded. to a brother (Sam Irwin) ‘who gave the best
part of his youth to the Irish cause’ (Ded.) [DIW var. 1935]. There
is a sequel, Murder from Headquarters.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)